Broadening the role of pharmaceutical services in primary care

Equitable access to safe, effective and affordable medicines and vaccines is key to primary care. Medicines are more easily available if they are dispensed closer to patients and if community pharmacies can be integrated into primary care services.
Consequently, the role of community pharmacies in delivering primary care services has been growing in many European countries.
But how can the integration of community pharmacies and primary care services be achieved? How do we involve patients, care-givers and communities in such developments? How can public financing be best used to support access to medicines in primary care? Join us to find out!
SPEAKERS:
Sabine Vogler Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, GÖG), Austria (Keynote)
Charline Maertens de Noordhout, Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE), Belgium
Suzete Costa, Institute for Evidence-Based Health (ISBE), Portugal
MODERATORS:
Dheepa Rajan & Erica Richardson (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)
00:00 Intro
03:43 Poll
04:34 Medicines and pharmaceuticals' changing role in primary care
18:44 Poll results
20:21 Portugal - expanding pharmaceutical services in PHC
25:59 Belgium - engaging with patients with the NEED Project
33:57 Q&A
Note: Suzete Costa's presentation on Portugal was cut short due to a technical difficulty